 | Mansfield Parkyns - 1853 - 478 σελίδες
...system of drawing the pattern is purely mechanical. I had one arm adorned; a rather blind old woman was the artist; her implements consisted of a little pot...sufficient, and going over the same ground repeatedly to ensure regularity and unity in the lines. With some persons, the first effect of this tattooing is... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1860 - 376 σελίδες
...last-named items were her substitutes for pencils. Her circles were made by dipping the end of a piece of a cane of the required size into the blacking', and...sufficient, and going over the same ground repeatedly to ensure regularity and unity in the lines. With some persons, the first eifect of this tattooing is... | |
 | James Greenwood - 1863 - 478 σελίδες
...straw bent to the proper length and likewise blackened, marked all the lines, squares, diamonds, etc., which were to be of equal length. Her design being...sufficient, and going over the same ground repeatedly to ensure regularity and unity in the lines. "With some persons the first effect of this tattooing is... | |
 | James Greenwood - 1863 - 438 σελίδες
...straw bent to the proper length and likewise blackened, marked all the lines, squares, diamonds, etc., which were to be of equal length. Her design being...sufficient, and going over the same ground repeatedly to ensure regularity and unity in the lines. With some persons the first effect of this tattooing is to... | |
 | John George Wood - 1868 - 802 σελίδες
...had one arm adorned ; a rather blind old woman was the artist ; her implements consisted of a small pot of some sort of blacking, made, she told me, of...squares, diamonds, &c., which were to be of equal length, bier design being thus completed, she worked away on it with her pin, which she dug in as far as the... | |
 | Edmund Yates, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1883 - 756 σελίδες
...likewise blackened, marked all the lines, squares, diamonds, etc., which were to be of equal size. Her design being thus completed, she worked away on...sufficient, and going over the same ground repeatedly to ensure regularity and uniformity in the lines. With some persons the first effect of this tattooing... | |
 | Edmund Yates, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1883 - 752 σελίδες
...required size into the blacking, ami making its impression on the skin, while an end of the straw bout to the proper length and likewise blackened, marked all the lines. squares, diamonds, etc., which were to be of equal size. Her design being thu? completed, she worked away on it with her... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1894 - 712 σελίδες
...blackened, marked all the lines, iquams, diamonds, &c., which were to be of equal length. Her design *i«ing thus completed, she worked away on it with her pin,...far as the thin part would enter, keeping the supply blacking sufficient, and going over the samo ground repeatedly to ensure regularity and unity in the... | |
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... which were to be of equal length. Her design being thus completed, she worked away on it with her pin, which she dug in as far as the thin part would enter, keeping the supply of blacking sufficient, and going over the same ground repeatedly to ensure... 